Let me know what you think of Snow Crash. Very interested in that book myself.

Read it. It's a great novel. It's equal measures thrilling, hilarious, and intellectually stimulating. It'll throw you a hysterical, suspenseful pizza delivery scene and then expend your brain with long discussions on neurolinguistics and Babylonian culture. It's a mindwarp of a novel.

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I'm on book ten of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Reacher is such a great character. He's a moutainous badass, the ultimate alpha male, but he has a real moral compass. I'm eager for the movie adaptation of the ninth novel, One Shot, but I remain to be convinced that Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher. I know Child himself has signed off on it, but I just don't see it. This is more than a "but Lois isn't a redhead!" fanboy complaint. Jack Reacher is a big, powerful man. His physique and his personality are absolutely intertwined. He's also slyly humorous and sort of bemused in his interactions with people. I like Tom Cruise, but his strengths tend towards very serious characters. Yes, even Les Grossman. That character works because Cruise played it like he wasn't in on the joke. I'm going to keep an open mind (and they got Werner Herzog to play the villain, so I'm so there), but it's going to take a lot to convince me that Cruise is Jack Reacher. If Dwayne Johnson had any sense, he'd have persued this role to the ends of the earth.

I'm up for recommendations if any of you have some. I really enjoy horror the most, don't recommend King or Barker though, I own pretty much all their novels.

Check out Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. The first novel I've read in a long, long time that made me turn on the lights. It's ball-shrivelingly terrifying.

It's a sci fi novel, but Peter Watts' Blindsight shook me to the core. It's a first contact story that deconstucts consciousness in such a way that it could literally change your life, and it also has the single coolest evolutionary explaination for vampirism I've ever encountered. Jukka Sarasti is my favorite vampire ever.

Check out Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. The first novel I've read in a long, long time that made me turn on the lights. It's ball-shrivelingly terrifying.

It's a sci fi novel, but Peter Watts' Blindsight shook me to the core. It's a first contact story that deconstucts consciousness in such a way that it could literally change your life, and it also has the single coolest evolutionary explaination for vampirism I've ever encountered. Jukka Sarasti is my favorite vampire ever.

Books:
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
I, Partridge, We Need To Talk About Alan - Alan Partridge
This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl - Paul Brannigan
Becoming the Natural: My Life in and Out of the Cage - Randy Couture
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest: Stieg Larsson

Books:
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
I, Partridge, We Need To Talk About Alan - Alan Partridge
This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl - Paul Brannigan
Becoming the Natural: My Life in and Out of the Cage - Randy Couture
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest: Stieg Larsson

I'm up for recommendations if any of you have some. I really enjoy horror the most, don't recommend King or Barker though, I own pretty much all their novels.

The Secret Histories series by Simon R*. Green are amazing. A mix of sci-fi/fantasy, horror, and espionage, it was originally intended to be a trilogy, but the response was so positive he's expanded it to, at the moment, six books.

The Man With The Golden Torc
Daemons Are Forever
The Spy Who Haunted Me
From Hell With Love
For Heaven's Eyes Only
Live And Let Drood

The first one was AWESOME, the second one was even better, and the third one was good, but personally I'd rate it as the third best of the first three.

The Secret Histories series by Simon G. Green are amazing. A mix of sci-fi/fantasy, horror, and espionage, it was originally intended to be a trilogy, but the response was so positive he's expanded it to, at the moment, six books.

The Man With The Golden Torc
Daemons Are Forever
The Spy Who Haunted Me
From Hell With Love
For Heaven's Eyes Only
Live And Let Drood

The first one was AWESOME, the second one was even better, and the third one was good, but personally I'd rate it as the third best of the first three.

Have to give these a read sometime. Love how they're all plays on Bond titles.

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - 5/5
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 3.5/5

Let me cover each individually:

Speark for the Dead was an amazing book, and genius follow up to Ender's Game. It completes the journey started by Andrew Wiggin, as well as beginning an epic story which I am anxious to follow. Another masterpiece to begin an epic saga, which is rare.

Hunger Games was a good start, but I do feel the story went some cliche places when more creativity was present, and it made me dislike the main character by the end of the first book. That said, it did make me want to continue the series and a got really into it toward the middle, which isn't easy. Overall solid cast of characters, though the main character loses big points toward the end.

Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
Collected Stories, by William Faulkner
The Book of Psalms, translated by Robert Alter
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Elbow Room, by Daniel Dennett
Kind Minds by Daniel Dennet
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Music: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas Cook
A Game of Thrones, by George RR Martin
Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett
Henry VI Parts I-III
The Taming of the Shrew
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas , by Peter Kreeft
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality. by Manjit Kumar
Critique of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Meditations on First Philosophy , by Renes Decartes
Little, Big, John Crowley
Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare
Richard III, by William Shakespeare
The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright
The Comedy of Errors
God Is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
Richard II
The End of Faith, by Sam Harris
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Portable Atheist, edited by Christopher Hitchens

Schultz A Biography, by David Michaelis
A Clash of Kings, by George RR Martin

__________________That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe, and because the Universe is All, that which is not Body is Nothing and consequently Nowhere. Thomas Hobbes

You are the world you have created. And when you cease to exist, this world that you have created will also cease to exist. Cormac Mccarthy

Nothing isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just nothing. Arya Stark